Synonym: front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman. Similar words: figure, figure out, figure in, prefigure, wax figure, configure, disfigure, disfigured. Meaning: n. 1. a person used as a cover for some questionable activity 2. figure on the bow of some sailing vessels.
Random good picture Not show
1, The queen is only a figurehead.
2, The party's president had become merely a figurehead.
3, The President will be little more than a figurehead.
4, The Queen is merely a figurehead.
5, King is just a figurehead; it's the president who has the real power.
6, The President of this company is just a figurehead - the Chief Executive has day-to-day control.
7, Norway's King Harald V is a figurehead.
8, The manager is merely a figurehead.
9, The figurehead President, Joseph Nerette, resigned and the post was left vacant.
10, Switzer is regarded as a figurehead who basically just stays out of the way.
11, The chief himself became the figurehead of a car; his bony face was aerodynamically restyled to suit this role.
12, He was never more than a mere figurehead in the negotiations.
13, The president is essentially a figurehead: the real power lies with the prime minister.
14, The emperor is a figurehead.
15, The queen of that country is only a figurehead.
16, Otherwise Miller would become a dispensable figurehead.
17, The party's president has become merely a figurehead.
18, The new leader may as a mere figurehead for a cluster of generals and other bosses.
19, The mayor is just a figurehead; it's the council that makes all the real decisions.
20, He was likely a mere figurehead ,(http://sentencedict.com/figurehead.html) unable to capitalize upon his abilities or realize his dreams.
21, The president of the club is not just a figurehead.
22, But despite the president s show of contrition(sentencedict.com), few analysts believe Mr Wahid is willing to become a figurehead just yet.
23, His benign middle-class credentials were supposed to attract a wide spectrum of supporters, but he was merely a figurehead.
24, More than 10 years on, Mr Thomson has once again assumed a figurehead role over Mrs Maginnis.
25, There had only been six, then; the five old Encyclopedistsall dead now-and himself, the young figurehead of a mayor.
26, The Emperor was transformed from a divine figure into a constitutional figurehead.
27, Libya would return to pre-Gadaffi days when it was ruled by a British-managed figurehead king, the doddering Ibn Idris.
28, In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and, as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
29, Bow and stern are decorated with intricate ornaments; she has a life-size figurehead of Amerigo Vespucci .
30, The Vikings built ships with high bows and a projecting stem bearing a menacing figurehead, similar to the ships of William I the Conqueror as seen in the Bayeux Tapestry.
More similar words: figure, figure out, figure in, prefigure, wax figure, configure, disfigure, disfigured, transfigure, public figure, forehead, figurative, figuratively, configuration, transfiguration, reheat, preheat, rehearse, rehearsal, make headway, muddleheaded, double-header, apprehend, comprehend, reprehend, prehensile, comprehended, apprehended, apprehension, comprehension.